Adaptive Local Polynomial Whittle Estimation of Long-Range Dependence

Donald Andrews () and Yixiao Sun

University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, UC San Diego

Abstract: The local Whittle (or Guassian semiparametric) estimator of long range dependence, proposed by Kunsch (1987) and analyzed by Robinson (1995a), has a relatively slow rate of convergence and a finite sample bias that can be large. In this paper, we generalize the local Whittle estimator to circumvent these problems. Instead of approximating the short-run component of the spectrum, Phi (Lamda), by a constant in a shrinking neighborhood of frequency zero, we approximate its logarithm by a polynomial. This leads to a "local polynomial Whittle" (LPW) estimator. We specify a data-dependent adaptive procedure that adjusts the degree of the polynomial to the smoothness of Phi (Lamda) at zero and selects the bandwidth. The resulting "adaptive LPW" estimator is shown to achieve the optimal rate of convergence, which depends on the smoothness of Phi (Lamda) at zero, up to a logarithmic factor.

Keywords: Adaptive estimator; asymptotic bias; asymptotic normality; bias reduction; local polynomial; long memory; minimax rate; optimal bandwidth; Whittle likelihood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-10-01
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